President Obama speaks at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau on Friday in Washington, D.C. (Olivier Douliery-Pool, Getty Images)
Re: “Obama looms as a factor in Colorado Senate, governor race, poll shows,” Oct. 14 news story.
After reading this article, I have to wonder if I am living in an alternate universe. People think President Obama is the problem? How many months ago was it that the Republicans were shutting down the government in order to get their way? How long has it been since the Republicans decided the way to manage our finances was to trash our national credit rating by not raising the debt ceiling?
Republican obstructionism has led to the least productive Congress in history and resulted in a Republican approval rating in the low 20s. Obama is not the problem. Republicans are. Republicans elected to Congress (no matter how charming and reasonable they are on the campaign trail) will still be forced to support the same obstructionist strategy and thus produce more of the same dysfunctional government.
Douglas Willey, Thornton
This letter was published in the Oct. 18 edition.Re: “For Democratic candidates, is Obama dead weight?,” Oct. 14 letters to the editor.
Letter-writer Lee Hegner states that “Obama is likely the most accomplished, capable, aware, informed, effective president this nation has ever had.” Wow, high praise.
Just what has this man Obama accomplished? Well, give him his due, many people who couldn’t get health insurance now can, never mind the cost. There are several other things that have increased in the past six years: the number of people who have dropped out of the work force and the number of people on food stamps. Oh, yes, and the national debt has skyrocketed.
Hegner skates by, for obvious reasons, such “accomplishments” as Obama’s apparent detachment from day-to-day governing, his disrespect of opponents, the losing of two wars which were almost won when he took office, the consequent being sucked into another war, and other “worthy” deeds.
One has to wonder just what standards the letter-writer is using to compare this president to others.
Stan Moore, Lakewood
This letter was published in the Oct. 18 edition.
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